Arts and Music at Redeemer

The Sunday of the Passion  choir and organ

Choral Psalm 22  anglican chant/Hopkins

Choral Anthem  Adoramus te Christe/Jacques Berthier

Maundy Thursday   women’s schola, soloists, and organ

Organ prelude  Variations on Pange lingua glorioso/Nicolas de Grigny

Choral Psalm 78  plainsong, after Hildegard of Bingen

Choral Anthem  Panis Angelicus/Giuseppe Baini

Duet   Tantum Ergo/Nicolas Gigault
Erica Row & Christina Siemens

Solo   A Song of Lamentation/John Karl Hirten

Stacey Porter

Good Friday    choir and organ

Choral Anthem  Behold, Before Our Wondering Eyes/ Walker & Berberick

The Great Paschal Vigil   choir, soloists, trumpet, and organ

Choral Canticle  Come, let us sing to the Lord!/Dorothy J. Papadakos

Solo   Alleluia, from Cantata 51/J. S. Bach
Erica Row

Trumpet Offertory Aria/Flor Peeters
Judson Scott

Choral Anthem  Be Still and Know/Ana Hernandez

Organ Postlude  Allegro vivace assai, from Sonata No. 1/Felix Mendelssohn

The Sunday of the Resurrection  choir, soloists, trumpet, and organ

Trumpet Prelude Largo & Allegro/J. F. Fasch
Judson Scott

Solo   Victoria, mein Jesus ist erstanden/G. P. Telemann
Glenn Guhr

Duet   Maria Magdelena et alter Maria/Sulpitia Cesis
Christina Siemens & Glenn Guhr

Choral Anthem  Jesu, Joy of Our Desiring/J. S. Bach

Trumpet Postlude Moderato & Allegro/Guiseppe Torelli

Judson Scott

II Pascha    soloist and flute duet

Solo   I know that my Redeemer liveth, from Messiah/G. F. Handel
Christina Siemens

Call to Artists - Gift of Water

Our gallery is seeking artwork expressing the theme “Gift of Water” (exploring the various associations with water and baptism: renewal, rebirth, resurrection, cleansing, life, oceans, rain, etc.) - a juried art exhibit that will be on view in our nave gallery throughout the 2009 Easter season, April 8 - June 3, with an artists’ reception planned for the evening of April 16th.  All genres and media considered. Artwork needs to be 2-dimensional–it can extend into the third dimension, but it must be able to be hung on a wall.

Where: CR Gallery, Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore, WA

When: April 8 – June 3, 2009

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 6:30– 8:30pm

How: Submit up to 3 jpegs (72dpi, 600 pixels on the longest side) via e-mail to arts@redeemer-kenmore.org. Please include your name, contact information, and a few words about your work. Also include title, medium, framed dimensions, and retail price of each image submitted. Submission deadline is March 23, 2009. The work will then be juried and acceptance notifications and delivery instructions will be sent out via e-mail by March 25th.

Entry fee: $15 (USD) for up to 3 images, payable via PayPal. This needs to be paid before work can be submitted to the jury.

Please take note of the following:
•Artwork must be ready to hang, preferably from a wire. Photographs and
artwork on paper must be framed with a wire attached for hanging. Canvases
do not need to be framed, but the sides should be painted, either a solid
color or as a continuation of the image, in order to give a neat,
professional appearance, and must have a wire attached to the stretchers
for hanging purposes.

•For work that is shipped, all shipping costs will be the responsibility
of the artist.

•Artwork can be for sale. The gallery will direct buyers directly to the
artist and takes no commission.

•The gallery will take care of advertising and publicity, and artists with
accepted work will receive postcard announcements to distribute
themselves.

•In addition to being displayed in the nave gallery, accepted artists will
also be featured on the church’s website.

•For ease of transport, and so we get to meet you, we are especially
seeking artists in the Puget Sound area, but this call is open to all
artists over 18.

•If you have any questions, please email Angela at arts@redeemer-kenmore.org.

Please feel free to pass this information along to other artists you think
might be interested.

I hope everybody had a very joyful Easter Sunday. I know I did. This is my third Easter season at Church of the Redeemer, and the second Easter altarpiece I’ve designed (you can see last year’s altarpiece here and here). This year we (the arts committee) decided to add some color to the paper lace design using tissue paper. Turned out to be a very frustrating process, but once the art was installed, it turned out to be so worth all the aggravation.

There were other frustrations as well, largely due to the unusually early appearance of Easter this year. But the biggest frustration was actually me. I had been suffering through some big time burnout issues in regards to my role in the arts committee for months, and was beginning to question whether I’d be able to go on with it once this liturgical year came to an end. This was making me cranky, to put it mildly, and made completing the Easter art that much more difficult. Lent passed with me barely noting it, and Holy Week ended up feeling like such a chore, instead of being the powerfully spiritual journey that I know it can be.

But I’m very happy to report that the Holy Spirit was definitely moving at our Easter Vigil on Saturday night, and I feel all sorts of refreshed now. I feel truly inspired (to breathe life into) and I’ve got all sorts of ideas for next liturgical year’s art. Thanks be to God!

In a few weeks we’ll be starting on art for Pentecost and I’m really looking forward to it. :)

Happy Easter!

-Angela

The Arts Committee is hard at work making the altarpiece for Pascha, also known as Easter. As always, it will be cut paper - though this year, colored tissue paper will be an element.

Here are a couple of photos of the work-in-progress on Flickr:

On the night of the Great Vigil, local jazz musician and Redeemer parishioner Hunter Close performed a musical interpretation of Ezekiel 36:24-28.

Hunter says that John Coltrane’s album “A Love Supreme” is one of his inspirations for this piece.

Ezekiel 36:24-28

Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Click here to listen

On the night of the Great Vigil, I read a short story that I wrote about Israel’s deliverance through the Red Sea.

In honor of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, this story is free to read and adapt under a Creative Commons license.

- Wade

Download the PDF file here

Listen to the audio of the reading here

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Karl Oles presented a creative interpretation of the Creation story on the night of the Great Vigil.

Download the PDF file here

Listen to Karl’s reading here

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The idea of “faith as performance” comes to the fore in a very blatant way during Holy Week.

On Passion Sunday we reenacted the Passion of our Lord, taking the parts of Pilate, the Pharisees, the crowds, and Christ himself during the liturgy.

Then during the Great Vigil on the following Saturday, several of us presented the night’s readings through creative interpretations: music, fiction, spoken word, and dance. (I’ll post a couple of the pieces here over the next few days.)

Stanley Hauerwas addressed faith as performance in this interview on Homiletics online:

HOMILETICS: Your recent book on Bonhoeffer, Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence — I thought “performing” was an interesting word. Faith as performance.

HAUERWAS: That was very intentional. One of the things that liberal democratic society has encouraged Christians to believe about what they believe is that what it means to be a Christian is primarily belief![laughter]. So you hold to these 26 absurd propositions before breakfast, you know.

This is a deep misunderstanding about how Christianity works. Of course we believe that God is God and we are not and that God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit but that this is not a set of propositions — but is rather embedded in a community of practices that make those beliefs themselves work and give us a community by which we are shaped. Religious belief is not just some kind of primitive metaphysics, but in fact it is a performance just like you’d perform Lear. What people think Christianity is, is that it’s like the text of Lear, rather than the actual production of Lear. It has to be performed for you to understand what Lear is — a drama. You can read it, but unfortunately Christians so often want to make Christianity a text rather than a performance.

- Wade

I am very excited to announce our very first call to artists for our gallery. We are looking for artists to submit 2 dimensional work, in any medium and style, expressing the Stations of the Cross for an exhibit which will be on display beginning April 1st (Palm Sunday) through May 25th. The deadline for entries is March 12th, 2007. Please see our official call to artists for more details.

Peace and happy creating!

Angela